July was our first complete month on the blogosphere.

Traffic: 809 visits

We know you’re out there. To say the least, the site hasn’t had particularly exponential growth — aside from a StumbleUpon wave — but our readers have left a decent number of comments, so we know you are out there.

There was a good deal of StumbleUpon traffic coming at the beginning of the month. About half was from “organic” stumbles, and we also spent about $15.00 on StumbleUpon traffic to see if we could generate a snowball effect. Results were mixed. StumbleUpon upon is our biggest referrer, followed by Entrecard.

We’re not dropping the 300-card limit, that’s for sure. But when I notice an Entrecard box on a related blog, I’m always looking to drop.

RSS readers: currently 11

Well, technically we’re down this month. Feel free to pity us and subscribe. Or just wait until we offer an incentive, whether that be some more frequent content or a download/contest for you.

Revenue: $0.92

We still have all of our 125×125 ads for sale, available for $10. The ads you currently see are from a couple “125×125 exchanges” to fill up the space until we find real suitors. If you are interested in purchasing a spot, leave a comment or drop us an e-mail.

Scratchback has been a complete loss so far. Then again, selling one link would make it our #1 source of revenue, so we’ll hang on to it for now.

We had a single moderately high AdSense click, resulting in our total $0.92 for the month. That’s correct; we’ve got one click to show for the month. Because the ads are only shown on the bottom of internal posts, we aren’t drawing particularly impressive numbers. Maybe we should cut the “making money online” topic out of our blog.

Heading into August

Of course, there’s a lot of room to improve in all aspects of the site. We’re actively looking for ways to do this, and there are a wide variety of ways to get involved. Ask us to sponsor your blog contest, send us (or ask for) a guest post, purchase an advertisement on the blog, sign up to the RSS feed, or just keep coming back!

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